Oracle

Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure - Nashville

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2 months ago
Nashville, TN, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$115k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of hyperscale distributed systems and data-plane services.
  • Define and validate scalability, elasticity, durability, availability, and fault-tolerance requirements.
  • Optimize high-throughput retrieval, storage, and processing paths using distributed state, replication, and synchronization patterns.
  • Design redundancy, automatic failover, recovery, load shedding, throttling, rate limiting, retry, and timeout mechanisms.
  • Establish SLOs, KPIs, telemetry, dashboards, and proactive alerting for critical systems.
  • Lead performance, load, fault-injection, and brownout testing.
  • Diagnose production incidents, guide root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers in operational excellence.
  • Build Infrastructure as Code and operational automation for safe patching, updates, rollbacks, and change management.
  • Apply encryption, access controls, remediation practices, and compliance readiness controls to multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 7 years of professional software-engineering experience with demonstrated impact on large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong experience designing and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
  • Proficiency in one or more object-oriented or systems programming languages such as Java, C++, C#, or Go.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and secure software development.
  • Experience with system-level test automation, performance and load testing, reliability engineering, and production incident response.
  • Experience leading or influencing technical architecture and mentoring engineers.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Preferred experience includes Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, distributed storage, microservices, replication, state management, high-throughput data processing, observability, 24x7 production operations, Infrastructure as Code, service automation, security controls, and cloud compliance.

Benefits

  • Office-based position requiring onsite presence in Nashville, Tennessee.
  • Relocation assistance may be available under Oracle’s relocation policies.
  • Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and financial planning services.
  • Paid vacation, 11 paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance.
  • Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits, flexible spending accounts, group legal services, and voluntary insurance benefits.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureC#C++GoGoogle CloudJavaOracle Cloud

Categories

Oracle

About Oracle

10,000+ employees

Oracle builds database technology, enterprise applications, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for companies and governments. Its business spans cloud subscriptions, software licenses, and support services across ERP, HCM, CX, and industry suites, plus NetSuite. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Oracle is a public company traded on the NYSE and serves global customers migrating and running critical workloads in its cloud.

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